The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903-1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling … the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.
| ISBN: | 9781107002753 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2017 |
| Author: | Henry James |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 688 pages |
| Series: | The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works |